Another Experiment with Translucent Polymer Clay
One sunny fall day while walking by Willow Lake I took some photos of lovely translucent white seed pods. They were worn by the wind but still standing. Their shapes were ragged and lantern like. They hung from straight white dried stems and I just had to see if I could recreate them in translucent polymer clay. I've been thinking about how to do that for a few weeks and decided it was time to jump in and experiment. I thought I’d share some of the steps I took. First I bought my 3 packages of Pardo Translucent Clay at Hobby Lobby (all they had). I had not worked with Pardo before and I love it! Not sticky like some of the other brands of translucent. I’m hooked! After making the lantern pattern, I found a great texture plate to give a cell like organic texture to the clay. The clay was rolled to #6 on my Atlas machine because I really wanted the translucent quality. The first time I did not use wire and I like the lo...